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The Run-Up

Your guide to understanding the 2024 election. Especially the messy parts.

Your guide to understanding the 2024 election. Especially the messy parts.

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  2. Maybe It All Comes Down to Abortion

    In the battleground state of Arizona, Democrats hope that anger over Dobbs and state-level restrictions will send people to the polls and keep Biden in the White House.

    By Astead W. Herndon, Caitlin O’Keefe and Anna Foley

     
  3. Trump’s Guilty. Does Anyone Care?

    Some voters are moving away from the former president, but conversations with people still on the fence show a wide range of issues on their mind beyond a criminal conviction.

    By Astead W. Herndon, Caitlin O’Keefe, Elisa Gutierrez and Ruth Igielnik

     
  4. What Women Voters Really Want

    It’s a political question at the heart of 2024 and the premise of Trump’s criminal trial. We check in with two female pollsters who wrote a book in 2005, claiming to know … one of whom happens to be Kellyanne Conway.

    By Astead W. Herndon, Caitlin O’Keefe and Elisa Gutierrez

     
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  15. Why It Had to Be Trump

    The Republican base loves him. And the party establishment that might have preferred someone else did not put up a fight.

    By Astead W. Herndon, Caitlin O’Keefe and Anna Foley

     
  16. Why It Had to Be Biden

    According to the Democratic National Committee and Biden’s inner circle, he is the best option in a battle with Trump, no matter what voters might be worried about.

    By Astead W. Herndon, Elisa Gutierrez and Caitlin O’Keefe

     
  17. Everything You Need to Know About Super Tuesday

    The results are expected to be more “tepid” than boiling, but we’ll still be able to understand 2024 better after 16 states or territories vote.

    By Astead W. Herndon and Caitlin O’Keefe

     
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  20. Do Not Invite Donald Trump or Joe Biden on This Date

    Politics dominates much of American life. But when it comes to finding love, being too political can be a major turn off.

    By Astead W. Herndon, Elisa Gutierrez, Caitlin O’Keefe, Jessica Grose and Anna Martin

     
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  30. In a Song of the Summer, Clues for January in Iowa

    Jason Aldean’s single “Try That in a Small Town” stirred up political controversy, and climbed the charts. We talked to Aldean fans about what they heard in the song.

    By Astead W. Herndon and Caitlin O’Keefe

     
  31. How Iowa Learned to Love Trump

    Iowa’s Republican voters typically reward faith-driven candidates. That doesn’t look to be how 2024 is shaping up. At the state fair, it was clear why.

    By Astead W. Herndon, Elisa Gutierrez and Anna Foley

     
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  33. Inside Donald Trump’s Dominance of the G.O.P. Primary

    Republican insiders thought criminal indictments might put a dent in the former president’s support. Instead, he’s leading in the polls — and planning how he’ll remake the presidency if he wins it back.

    By Astead W. Herndon and Anna Foley

     
  34. Is Donald Trump Going to Prison?

    Astead gets a crash course from NYT reporters on the criminal cases the former president — and current Republican front-runner — is facing and how they could upend the 2024 race.

    By Astead W. Herndon and Caitlin O’Keefe

     
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  37. The Biden Campaign Wants Democrats to Calm Down

    Yes, President Biden’s team has seen the polls that show him struggling in a 2024 rematch with Donald Trump. But it says it’s focused on other things — like how well Democrats are doing at the ballot box.

    By Astead W. Herndon, Elisa Gutierrez, Anna Foley and Sophia Lanman

     
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  40. The Run-Up Goes to Iowa

    In our final episode of the season, we travel to the state that could scramble both parties’ assumption that Donald Trump is the inevitable nominee — and talk to the voters most likely to turn on him.

    By ‘The Run-Up’ Team

     
  41. The Democrat Saying What Others Won’t

    We speak to Julian Castro, a former challenger and early skeptic of Joe Biden, about the concerns that so many voters have. But, the Democratic Party is unwilling to engage.

    By ‘The Run-Up’ Team

     
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  43. The New Terms of Abortion Politics

    A 15-week federal minimum. Court reform. Abortion activists on both sides are already preparing their 2024 playbooks in an uncertain post-Dobbs landscape.

    By ‘The Run-Up’ Team

     
  44. The Fight to Define Extremism

    Conversations with two lawmakers reveal how the parties regard, and exploit, the other side when it comes to questions of extremism.

    By ‘The Run-Up’ Team

     
  45. The Backup Plan for Lost Voters

    Millions of voters are dissatisfied with the prospect of another Trump-Biden matchup. Could there be an alternative?

    By ‘The Run-Up’ Team

     
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  47. The Trump Inevitability Question

    The former president’s criminal indictment was history-making. But what does it mean for his electability?

    By ‘The Run-Up’ Team

     
  48. The Pillow Guy and the R.N.C. Chair

    Conversations with Mike Lindell and Ronna McDaniel reveal the complexities of the divisions at the heart of the G.O.P.

    By ‘The Run-Up’ Team

     
  49. The New Demands of the MAGA Right

    What are the issues animating the Republican base? We head to a gathering of the conservative grass roots to find out.

    By ‘The Run-Up’ Team

     
  50. The Quiet Coronation of Joe Biden

    What are the real motivations behind the change to the Democratic primary order — and what does it say about Mr. Biden’s hold on the party?

    By ‘The Run-Up’ Team

     
  51. The Republican Party Sorts Through Its Mess

    We travel to an exclusive resort in California where party insiders are reeling from their midterms losses, and quietly trying to solve their Donald Trump problem.

    By ‘The Run-Up’ Team

     
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  53. The Post-Mortem

    In the aftermath of the midterm elections, Democrats and Republicans face key questions about the future of their parties.

    By ‘The Run-Up’ Team

     
  54. The Midterms

    It’s not yet clear which party will control the House or Senate, but the long-trailed “red wave” has not materialized.

    By ‘The Run-Up’ Team

     
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  56. The Grass Roots, Part 2

    With the midterm elections fast approaching, the Democratic Party is trying to re-energize its base before it’s too late. Four voters share how they feel about the state of their party.

    By ‘The Run-Up’ Team

     
  57. The Grass Roots, Part 1

    Inside the minds of four American conservative voters, whose political priorities revolve around defending the country.

    By ‘The Run-Up’ Team

     
  58. The Maps

    In Wisconsin, aggressive gerrymandering has allowed Republicans to cement their political power. Can Democrats ever make inroads?

    By ‘The Run-Up’ Team

     
  59. The Stacey Abrams Playbook

    The Democratic candidate for governor looks back on her organizing efforts in 2020, which helped turn Georgia blue. Will her strategy work against the incumbent governor Brian Kemp?

    By ‘The Run-Up’ Team

     
  60. The Blueprint

    The overturning of Roe v. Wade has given Democrats a rallying issue to mobilize around before the midterms. Can they catch up to years of Republican unity?

    By ‘The Run-Up’ Team

     
  61. The Guardrails

    A new class of American evangelical leaders is shaking up the Republican Party — and raising the stakes of the midterm elections.

    By ‘The Run-Up’ Team

     
  62. The Republic

    American democracy is under threat. But for some candidates and voters, democracy isn’t even the destination anymore.

    By ‘The Run-Up’ Team

     
  63. The Autopsy

    What Democrats and Republicans got wrong about voters started with a pileup of flawed assumptions.

     
  64. The Stakes

    This November, Americans will head to the polls for the first major political test since Jan. 6.

     
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